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Using an average distance of 93,000,000 miles between the Earth and the Sun, and a diameter of 8,000 miles for the Earth, this would mean the Sun is 11,625 Earth-Diameters away! To put it another way: If the Sun were the size of a regulation 9-inch Basketball, then the Earth would be just a bit bigger than the head of a pin, and located 77 feet away! (The nearest Star/basketball would be about 4,000 miles away!)
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JudyThe question is unusual, but we'll take it at face value . . .
The distance from the earth to the sun averages about 93,000,000 miles,
and the earth's diameter is about 8,000 miles. These rough figures are
close enough to pull out a number that will point close to the answer.
If several earths were lined up between our present position and the sun ...
like beads on a string ... it would take (93,000,000 / 8000) of them, or about
11,625 earths
to cover the distance from the earth to the sun.
Of course that depends on how fast you travel and what route you take.
If you could travel from earth to sun in a straight line, then
-- at 100 miles per hour . . . . . 38,750 days = about 106 years
-- at 343 meters per second (speed of sound at sea level) . . . 5,050 days = about 13.8 years
-- at 300,000 kilometers per second (speed of light) . . 8.3 minutes = about 0.00058 day
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What number planet is it in terms of proximity to the sun?
Earth is the third planet from the Sun in our solar system, following Mercury and Venus.
What was Copernicus' idea about the earth and the sun?
That the earth revolves around the sun, not that the sun revolves around the earth.
How much time for the moon to revolve around the sun?
The Moon orbits the Earth, and tags along after the Earth. It takes one year - 365.25 days - for the Earth to orbit the Sun once, so that's the number for the Moon as well.
What planet number is the moon?
The moon is not a planet, it is Earth's natural satellite. It orbits around Earth, not the sun like the planets do.
Neptune number of days to orbit around the sun?
Neptune takes about 165 Earth years to orbit around the sun once. This means Neptune's year is equal to approximately 165 Earth years.
